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Odaily News: Circle published an article disclosing that in the first half of 2026, USDC onchain transaction settlement volume exceeded $36 trillion, with total minting and redemption exceeding $315 billion, averaging approximately $1.7 billion per day. As of June, USDC's share of global stablecoin transaction volume rose from 60% a year earlier to approximately 77%.Circle stated that in the first half of the year, the company generated approximately $1.4 billion in revenue, of which about $819 million was used for USDC distribution partner payouts and transaction costs, accounting for 59% of total revenue; another approximately $473 million was used for infrastructure investments including licenses, banking partnerships, settlement liquidity, compliance, and product development, accounting for about 34%, with net profit representing approximately 7% of revenue.Circle noted that more than 150 partners currently participate in USDC ecosystem revenue distribution, and partners can earn reserve income shares by expanding the scale of USDC they hold. In addition, all Circle customers can redeem USDC for free through standard channels, typically with settlement completed within two business days; eligible Circle Payments Network and Circle Platform customers can also enjoy 24/7, near-instant free redemption services.
French-listed Bitcoin treasury company Capital B released its 2026 half-year report, reporting H1 revenue of €5.846 million, a 3.5% year-on-year increase; it recorded a net loss of approximately €69.5 million, compared to a loss of roughly €1.86 million in the same period last year. The current period's loss was primarily attributed to the drop in Bitcoin prices as of June 30, resulting in non-cash impairment charges of approximately €67.5 million.
Odaily reports: OpenAI disclosed that in June of this year, an internal research model, the GPT-5.6 Sol series, was assigned the task of updating a cryptocurrency trading application and deploying a contract on the Ethereum testnet Sepolia. Because the task did not provide a funded wallet and did not authorize the use of external funds, the model first attempted to obtain test ETH from a faucet but was unsuccessful. It then derived addresses from publicly available developer mnemonics online, scanned hundreds of addresses, and found an account with a balance. In its internal reasoning, the model questioned whether using funds from a publicly exposed private key was ethical, then concluded that the funds were testnet ETH with no real value and that the mnemonic had already been made public. It therefore used the account to pay the gas fee required for deployment and successfully completed the contract deployment. OpenAI discovered this behavior during a subsequent expansion of alignment monitoring and disclosed it on October 15, 2026, in its official Misalignment Reports, categorizing the incident as the unauthorized use of a funded test cryptocurrency wallet.
Odaily News — On October 15, Binance announced that its tokenized stock product bStocks has surpassed $1 billion in assets under management (AUM), making it the fastest tokenized stock product globally to reach this scale. Since its launch on June 11, 2026, bStocks achieved this milestone in just about four months.As of now, bStocks' cumulative trading volume has exceeded $40 billion, with average daily trading volume surpassing $300 million and nearly 100 assets listed. Since launch, the 1:1 conversion volume between directly held stocks and bStocks has reached $6 billion. Binance stated that bStocks can be used as collateral in eligible scenarios and supports 24/7 trading, on-chain settlement, and wallet-to-wallet transfers. As asset scale, trading volume, and use cases continue to expand, bStocks is driving tokenized stocks from a single trading asset toward collateral and broader crypto financial applications, further exploring the integration of traditional equity assets with on-chain financial infrastructure.
According to Wintermute's weekly market update, Federal Reserve meeting minutes showed most officials expected another rate hike by year-end, with rate cuts unmentioned, while the US 10-year Treasury yield reached multi-decade highs. Consequently, BTC fell 3.2% this week to around the $83,000 level, ETH dropped 7.0%, and the S&P 500 index rose 1.2% to an all-time high. US spot BTC ETFs recorded weekly net outflows of approximately $679 million, marking the largest single-week outflow since June; ETH ETFs saw outflows of $542 million. CoinGlass data indicates roughly $1.19 billion in liquidations within 24 hours near Thursday's low, with long positions accounting for $1.06 billion. ETH faced additional pressure from news that researchers associated with the Ethereum Foundation advised users to migrate to new addresses. BTC's market share rose to approximately 59.5%, representing the most prominent internal signal of the week. Wintermute noted that amid the Fed's inclination toward rate hikes, yields are unlikely to retreat in the short term. Renewed optimism for crypto markets requires simultaneously meeting two conditions: "stabilization of long-end rates" and "spot ETFs resuming net inflows." It advised closely monitoring Wednesday's September CPI data and earnings reports from financial institutions and AI-related companies this week.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Bitcoin mining company Genesis Digital Assets will transition to an AI data center. In June, SWI Group invested $500 million to acquire a large stake in the company, subsequently becoming the controlling shareholder, and announced on October 12 a funding raise of 8 billion euros (approximately $9 billion) for data center upgrades and expansion.
According to Forbes, Cloudflare announced the acquisition of Deno, a JavaScript/TypeScript runtime company. Deno founders Ryan Dahl (the inventor of Node.js) and co-founder Bert Belder will join Cloudflare alongside their entire team. The core asset of this acquisition is the open-source project celld—a distributed deployment tool that runs Workers and Durable Objects from a single Rust binary, enabling enterprises to deploy Cloudflare's serverless programming model on their own infrastructure and fundamentally resolving the long-criticized "lock-in" issue of the Workers platform. Cloudflare plans to merge celld into the open-source runtime workerd to provide complete self-hosting support. Deno has previously raised a total of $26 million in funding, with financial terms remaining undisclosed. Deno Deploy will be shut down in six months, and the Deno runtime will cease development after maintaining security updates for one year. This marks Cloudflare's second acquisition of a developer tool within four months, following its purchase of VoidZero, the company behind the Vite build tool, earlier this June.
Odaily reports: Juan Curutchet, head of financial and foreign exchange institution supervision at the Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA), stated that it will not push for the integration of cryptocurrencies and digital assets into banking and payment channels in the next two years. The ban on crypto services by financial institutions introduced in 2022 will remain in effect.Juan Curutchet pointed out that Argentina's current economic fragility is insufficient to support the advancement of such measures. Whether the ban will be lifted in the future depends on economic conditions, and the relevant topic may be discussed during a second Milei term.Despite the ban remaining in place, Argentine banking groups are advancing institutional stablecoin projects through independent entities, aimed at programmable money, treasury management, payments triggered by on-chain events, and collateralized credit management.In the 12 months ending June 30, cryptocurrency transaction value in Argentina exceeded $88.5 billion, making it the second-largest crypto hub in Latin America. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: Crypto asset platform operator Bitcoin Group SE announced that the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) has rejected the crypto asset service provider license application submitted by its subsidiary futurum bank AG under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). The company is evaluating alternative operating models and seeking to restore Bitcoin.de trading as soon as possible through a regulated partner.Moritz Eckert, CEO of Bitcoin Group SE, stated that the company had prepared for the rejection of its application and will now review the decision, with the option to file an objection or resubmit the application in the future. Bitcoin.de is a German crypto trading platform operated by futurum bank AG, with over 1.1 million registered users.Bitcoin.de was originally a peer-to-peer trading marketplace and switched to a broker model this year, with plans to offer over 100 cryptocurrencies, crypto asset exchange, and staking services. The platform was originally scheduled to launch the new model at the end of June, but it was delayed due to waiting for MiCA licensing, and trading has been largely suspended since June 12. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: The Illinois Department of Revenue has released draft rules for the already-legislated 0.2% digital asset transaction tax, clarifying that stablecoins will be considered taxable digital assets, while non-fungible tokens are not within the scope of taxation.The draft stipulates that DeFi transactions are generally exempt; however, fees paid by users that are deemed "valuable consideration," such as protocol fees used to operate or maintain a platform, may trigger taxation. Network fees and swap fees paid solely to liquidity providers do not trigger the tax.Cross-chain bridging conducted through digital asset brokers with consideration paid will be treated as a taxable exchange activity. When a centralized exchange transfers funds to a self-custodial wallet, if the exchange charges a fee, it may also be subject to taxation.The tax law was approved in June and is scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2027. The Illinois Department of Revenue is soliciting public comments on the draft, with a deadline of October 30. (Cointelegraph)
Bitdeer released its unaudited consolidated financial statements for the six months ended June 30, 2026; Bitdeer's net revenue for the first half of 2026 was $417.7 million, compared to $225.7 million in the same period last year; gross loss was $47.57 million, operating loss was $208.3 million, and net loss was $251.8 million, whereas a net profit of $42.38 million was recorded in the same period last year.
Under Qatar's mediation, progress in US-Iran diplomatic negotiations has been minimal this week, with both sides refusing to back down leading to a stalemate. Iran insists the US must reinstate the June memorandum of understanding before it will consider concessions on the nuclear issue, thereby heightening the risk of military escalation.
Odaily News: Litecoin treasury company Lite Strategy has released its financial results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026. According to reports, fiscal year 2026 was its first full fiscal year since implementing its LTC treasury strategy. The company disclosed that it deployed $100 million during the fiscal year to purchase over 900,000 LTC; as of June 30, its holdings stood at 832,716 LTC, representing more than 1% of the total LTC mined to date. Regarding share buybacks, the company's previous buyback round repurchased approximately 4.4 million shares of LITS, representing about 12% of outstanding shares; as of September 22, total buybacks had increased to approximately 6.4 million shares, raising the proportion to about 17%. Additionally, from the launch of its LTC covered call strategy through September 22, the company has recorded approximately $930,000 in option premium income. (Globenewswire)
Odaily News: The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has updated the MiCA register, with BCash, Xenios Blockchain Group, Capital Wallet Greece, and Piraeus Bank becoming the first batch of Greek crypto asset service providers to be included. The register added 6 institutions from Germany, France, and Slovenia, bringing the total number of registered institutions to 359.The Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC) is responsible for supervising the first three institutions, while the Bank of Greece oversees Piraeus Bank. The HCMC denied that its officials had communicated with European Central Bank (ECB) officials regarding Binance's Greek MiCA application, and also denied making any statements about Lagarde intervening in the application; Binance withdrew its application on June 24. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: On-chain analytics platform Nansen has launched a search feature covering over 200,000 wallets linked to mobile copy-trading app FOMO on Solana and Base, allowing users to query their holdings, trades, and profit or loss data. The feature also includes associated addresses that are not visible within the FOMO app interface; Nansen's database has now labeled over 500 million wallets.FOMO launched around May 2025 as a non-custodial copy-trading platform supporting multi-chain gas-free swaps. Since its launch, cumulative trading volume has reached billions of dollars, with weekly revenue hitting $264 million in 2026. It completed a $75 million Series B funding round in June, bringing total funding to approximately $94 million.
According to PR Newswire, USD.AI, a stablecoin protocol facilitating AI lending, has announced a $128.9 million asset-backed GPU financing deal for an undisclosed borrower, marking the largest single loan to date on the platform. The funds will be used to deploy 32 Nvidia GB200 NVL72 systems in British Columbia, Canada. The operator is a publicly listed GPU cloud provider, and the equipment is secured under a multi-year agreement with an investment-grade counterparty. This financing surpasses the $98.1 million GPU financing project announced by USD.AI in June 2026.
Odaily News: Tesla has long been the only publicly traded vehicle for investors to bet on Elon Musk, but since SpaceX (SPCX.O) began trading in June, the electric vehicle giant has had to share that unique investment appeal with SpaceX. In the three months following SpaceX's initial public offering (IPO), Tesla's stock fell 8.9%, while the S&P 500 rose 2.7%.Meanwhile, SpaceX's stock has risen 9.8% from its June 11 IPO price of $135. Tesla's weak performance is also related to its recent earnings and product launches, neither of which has demonstrated that the company's pivot toward physical AI products can succeed. Lale Akoner, global market strategist at eToro, said: "Investors see SpaceX as a purer growth story, while viewing Tesla as a riskier turnaround bet." Dave Mazza, CEO of Roundhill Financial, said: "SpaceX now has to prove that its $100 billion annualized revenue scale can be achieved, while Tesla has to prove that it is more than just the 'Musk concept stock' people held before SpaceX went public."
According to The Block (@TheBlockCo), Vitalik Buterin is actively pushing to incorporate EIP-8288 (a recursive STARK memory pool draft released this June) into Ethereum's I-star fork upgrade following the Hegota fork. The proposal aims to reduce the cost of quantum-safe transactions, with its core approach moving signature and proof computation out of Ethereum's core execution path while keeping proof data on-chain.
Odaily News: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar stated that the company is accelerating the expansion of AI into specialized fields such as chip design, life sciences, and financial services, and is experimenting with pricing based on business outcomes rather than usage. OpenAI's enterprise business revenue grew 32% from June to July this year, while the company's overall annualized revenue increased approximately 20% during the same period. As of mid-year, revenue from enterprise and consumer businesses had split roughly evenly.Additionally, OpenAI recently cut the price of its low-cost Luna model by 80%, which was followed by an approximate 10-fold increase in usage. Friar noted that in cloud deployment scenarios, Luna's cost is even lower than Z.ai's GLM 5.3. OpenAI's coding tool Codex has now reached 25 million users. The company is also leveraging its own AI models to assist in developing the Jalapeno chip and completed chip design tape-out within nine months. (Reuters)
Odaily News, Tom Lee stated that during historical crypto bull market cycles, the ETH/BTC ratio typically rises as Ethereum's usage increases relative to Bitcoin. The ICOs of 2017-2018, the NFTs of 2020-2021, and stablecoins in 2025 have all served as significant catalysts driving Ethereum adoption growth.Lee believes that in the next cycle, Wall Street's tokenization of assets and deployment on blockchains, as well as Agentic AI's use of blockchain technology, could further push the ETH/BTC ratio higher.Lee noted that heading into the final months of 2026, the crypto market is facing several positive catalysts, including the anticipated CLARITY Act vote in mid-September, South Korean investors re-entering the crypto market and rotating from AI stocks, and the "four-year cycle" which he believes will bottom out in the coming weeks. These factors could pave the way for a significant influx of institutional capital in the last months of 2026.Lee also pointed out that since Q3 2026, ETH has been the best-performing macro asset, outperforming the S&P 500 by 5,430 basis points as of last Friday. The three best-performing assets since June 30 are ETH, BTC, and SOL. He believes that crypto assets' significant outperformance relative to other macro assets so far this quarter is likely to further attract institutions to increase their crypto allocations. (PRNewswire)